Walsall Castle

Walsall Castle
Walsall, England
Site information
TypeManor house
Open to
the public		no
ConditionDestroyed
Location
Walsall Castle
Shown within the West Midlands.
Coordinates52°35′05″N 2°00′00″W / 52.58459°N 2.00006°W / 52.58459; -2.00006
Grid referencegrid reference SP00109848
Site history
Built
  • Original building: c. 1199–1216 (during the reign of King John)
  • Basset's "new castle": 1385–6
In use13th century–1430s
Materialsunknown

Walsall Castle, also known as Walsall Moat, or le Mote during the 1400s, was a 12th or 13th-15th century moated manor house in the market town of Walsall in the West Midlands. The current site of the castle is occupied by a car park for the nearby Walsall Manor Hospital and the moat ran along what is now southern Moat Street - despite this, no visible remains exist and all earthworks have been flattened.

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